Further Reading
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Allen, William Francis. Slave Songs of the United States. 1867. Reprint, New York: Arno, 1971.
Baker, Houston A., Jr. Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1972.
———. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Bell, Bernard. The Folk Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974.
Botkin, B. A. New York City Folklore. New York: Random House, 1956.
Brewer, James Mason. American Negro Folklore. Chicago: Quandrangle Books, 1968.
Callahan, John F. In the African-American Grain: Call and Response in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
Chireau, Yvonne. “Conjure and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: Religious Elements in African American Magic.” Religion and American Culture 7, no. 2 (summer 1997): 225-47.
Cone, James H. The Spirituals and the Blues. New York: The Seabury Press, 1972.
Courlander, Harold. Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.
———. A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore. New York: Marlowe and Company, 1976.
Dance, Daryl C. Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
Dixon, Melvin. “We'll Stand the Storm: Slave Songs and Narratives.” In Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Dundes, Alan. Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore. New York: Garland Publishing, 1981.
Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and Act. New York: Random House, 1964. Reprint, New York: Vintage, 1995.
Fry, Gladys-Marie. Night Riders in Black Folk History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Gray, Lee Valerie. “The Use of Folktales in Novels by Black Women.” CLA Journal 23 (1980): 266-72.
Hill, Mildred A. “Common Folklore Features in African and African-American Literature.” Southern Folklore Quarterly 39 (1975): 111-33.
Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps. Book of Negro Folklore. New York: Dodd, 1957.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. New York: J. B. Lippincott, Inc., 1935. Reprint, New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
———. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. New York: J. B. Lippincott, Inc., 1938. Reprint, New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, and Ralph Ellison. “The Negro Writer in America: An Exchange.” Partisan Review 25, no. 2 (spring 1958): 197-222.
Jones, Gayl. Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Locke, Alain, ed. The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., 1925. Reprint, New York: Atheneum, 1992.
Oakley, Giles. The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues. New York: Taplinger, 1977.
Odum, Howard, and Guy B. Johnson. The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs of the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1925.
Ogunleye, Tolagbe. “African American Folklore: Its Role in Reconstructing African American History.” Journal of Black Studies 27, no. 4 (March 1997): 435-56.
Oliver, Paul. Blues off the Record: Thirty Years of Blues Commentary. New York: Da Capo, 1984.
Petesch, Donald A. “The Role of Folklore in the Modern Black Novel.” Kansas Quarterly 7 (1975): 99-110.
Prahlad, Sw. Anand. African-American Proverbs in Context. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
———. “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Folklore, Folkloristics, and African American Literary Criticism.” African American Review 33, no. 4 (winter 1999): 565-75.
Puckett, Newbell Niles. Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1969.
Pyatt, Sherman E., and Alan Johns. A Dictionary and Catalog of African American Folklife of the South. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Roberts, John W. From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1989.
Schultz, Elizabeth A. “To Be Black and Blue: The Blues Genre in Black American Autobiography.” Kansas Quarterly 7 (1975): 81-96.
Turner, Darwin T. “Black Fiction: History and Myth.” Studies in American Fiction 5 (1977): 109-26.
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